Ethan Coen

George Clooney joined the Coen brothers and stars Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro at a special 15th-anniversary screening of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" at the New York Film Festival.

Clooney remembered he had just left a successful television series when the opportunity came up.

"Listen I was an actor coming off of 'ER,' so the idea that the Coen brothers said, 'Do you want to do a movie?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I'll do a movie with the Coen brothers, are you kidding? They do great films.' I just couldn't believe my luck," Clooney told The Associated Press Tuesday night after arriving at the event.

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